(Played the Japanese version)
I'll admit I've never watched Hokuto no Ken. It's not like I don't want to it's more of just I have other anime I want to watch first. If there was one thing I knew about it for sure was it's success in the game market was almost abysmal. I can only think of like 2 maybe 3 good games based off this series. This is not one of those games oh no it's not even CLOSE!
This game reminds me a lot of Kung-fu/Spartan X and Vigilante where you go one direction and continue to fight enemies that die in one hit until you reach the end of the path. Now you may think oh that sounds like a dec-NO don't even finish that sentence. It's not fun. First off your attacks have such bad range and it feels inconsistent and I could never get a 100% feel around them. It's the worst with knocking projectiles, you may think you know how to get rid of them only for it to ignore your attack and bam you're hit.
Then you have the boss fights and these are so bad. Sometimes I can easily beat them but then it just feels like they hit me every single attempt I try. They all feel the same too outside of a special move they have. But nothing about these are enjoyable. I guess it's cool to see them die.
In fact that's one thing I'll give the game, it looks alright. I do wish it had more variety but it's not too bad. It's probably the best thing going for the game.
If the game isn't being frustrating it's being the most boring mind numbing game ever made. You try going into those building levels and see if you're having fun by the 3rd one. Seriously what were they thinking with some of the levels they just go on and on and the whole game just feels so slow. Why can Kenshiro only go fast in those building levels. It's all just so tiring after a while.
Did I forget to mention you only have one life? Because you do, kind of. Ok there is a continue cheat if you hold all the buttons at the text you see before the title logo shows up but if you didn't know about this, they expect you to do that horrible borefest in one go. Why couldn't you at least have lives or just a normal continue system? There's also just no i-frames and there's touch damage. You can get hurt by a STATIONARY ROCK!
Ok I've probably gone too long writing this but man it was frustrating and I didn't even mention the weird localization or some of the other dumb stuff like having to do levels more then once. It's just not a fun game and I feel drained of any energy after beating it.
I'll admit I've never watched Hokuto no Ken. It's not like I don't want to it's more of just I have other anime I want to watch first. If there was one thing I knew about it for sure was it's success in the game market was almost abysmal. I can only think of like 2 maybe 3 good games based off this series. This is not one of those games oh no it's not even CLOSE!
This game reminds me a lot of Kung-fu/Spartan X and Vigilante where you go one direction and continue to fight enemies that die in one hit until you reach the end of the path. Now you may think oh that sounds like a dec-NO don't even finish that sentence. It's not fun. First off your attacks have such bad range and it feels inconsistent and I could never get a 100% feel around them. It's the worst with knocking projectiles, you may think you know how to get rid of them only for it to ignore your attack and bam you're hit.
Then you have the boss fights and these are so bad. Sometimes I can easily beat them but then it just feels like they hit me every single attempt I try. They all feel the same too outside of a special move they have. But nothing about these are enjoyable. I guess it's cool to see them die.
In fact that's one thing I'll give the game, it looks alright. I do wish it had more variety but it's not too bad. It's probably the best thing going for the game.
If the game isn't being frustrating it's being the most boring mind numbing game ever made. You try going into those building levels and see if you're having fun by the 3rd one. Seriously what were they thinking with some of the levels they just go on and on and the whole game just feels so slow. Why can Kenshiro only go fast in those building levels. It's all just so tiring after a while.
Did I forget to mention you only have one life? Because you do, kind of. Ok there is a continue cheat if you hold all the buttons at the text you see before the title logo shows up but if you didn't know about this, they expect you to do that horrible borefest in one go. Why couldn't you at least have lives or just a normal continue system? There's also just no i-frames and there's touch damage. You can get hurt by a STATIONARY ROCK!
Ok I've probably gone too long writing this but man it was frustrating and I didn't even mention the weird localization or some of the other dumb stuff like having to do levels more then once. It's just not a fun game and I feel drained of any energy after beating it.